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Designed for people who want to make gaming-centric computers... making the interface more like that of a console as opposed to a traditional operating system such as Windows and iMac based on linux...

So the idea behind it is to have a second box plugged at your tv and stream games from your PC or play the games with linux support natively... or something. I find it interesting seeing a company the size of Valve throwing their own Linux client into the wild, I wonder if it'll catch on? I think it's an indicator of the much rumoured 'Steam Boxes' that are meant to be arriving sometime soon (after all Valve have 2 more anouncements to make this week)

can you sell it to a simple console owner? So instead of that black box wat I plug into the telly I would need a high end (expensive) computer plus the Valve box connected to the TV streaming over wi-fi. I think this might be more expensive than my console and what would I get in return?
No, scrap that duck - tell me why this is important for the future.

a PC plugged into your TV can play Linux compatible games threw steam and stream your steam library from any other PC on your network.

It's only 'important' because it could make pc gaming more approachable in the future and may make streaming PC games in multiple rooms a lot more affordable as you can pretty much construct any old PC and have a gaming PC in your *room of choice* then boom you have an office computer and a games console that you can upgrade at your own leisure without having to invest in both... in theory this hunk a junk PC can be your living room games console for life.

2) more variety in games released on the platform
3) backwords compatible, way more so then consoles
4) HUMBLE BUNDLES (pay what you want for games
5) PC hardware has slowed down and upgrading to keep in line with modern games becomes much cheaper once the initial investment is laid down
6) Free multiplayer
7) Mods